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Welcome

Kowalah is an AI-powered platform designed specifically to help CIOs and IT leaders navigate complex AI purchasing decisions with confidence.

Think of Kowalah as your always-available AI procurement consultant, providing specialized guidance through each stage of buying and implementing AI technologies for your organisation.

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How Kowalah Helps

Organizations often lack the internal knowledge and experience to effectively evaluate and select AI technologies.

This can result in slow or (even worse, no) decisions that risk holding your company back during this time of rapid change.

Kowalah addresses this challenge by:

• Providing expert guidance through all six stages of the buying journey
• Offering specialized templates and frameworks for evaluating AI-specific requirements and capabilities
• Bridging the gap between your technical and business stakeholders
• Helping structure decisions to reduce the fear of making costly mistakes

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Key Features

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Guided Conversation Starters

Kowalah solves the “blank input box” problem by providing suggested tasks and questions relevant to your individual situation.

Every task is backed up by a guided conversation and helps you to generate supporting document templates:

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Project-Based Organization

Create dedicated spaces for each of your organisation’s AI initiatives with secure document sharing, structured knowledge management, and collaborative tools for your entire buying team.

According to 6Sense’s 2024 Buyer Experience Report, a typical buying group involves 11 people and lasts 11 months - Kowalah Projects allow you to maintain the context as new members join your buying team.

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AI-Powered Assistance

Get specialized guidance for different stages of AI procurement:

1. Problem identification: Define and validate the business challenge you’re solving
2. Solution exploration: Research potential solutions and approaches
3. Requirements gathering: Document what you need the solution to do
4. Supplier selection: Evaluate and choose the right vendor
5. Validation: Verify your AI solution choice is the right one
6. Consensus: Align stakeholders and move forward with AI adoption

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Getting Started

The best way to experience Kowalah is to begin a conversation about your current AI procurement challenges:

1. Sign in to your Kowalah account
2. Select a guided task or ask a specific question about your AI buying process
3. Engage in a conversation with Kowalah about your specific context
4. Create a project to organize your procurement initiative

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Next Steps

• Learn how to create your first project
• Understand how to ask effective questions
• Explore how to invite team members